The leader of the supervised a "strike drill" of
long-range multiple rocket launchers and unspecified tactical
guided weapons into the on Saturday while telling troops
to remain on alert, state media said.

Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday
that expressed "great satisfaction" over
the drills, which were to "estimate and inspect the operating
ability and the accuracy of striking duty performance" of the
weaponry.

Kim also urged troops to remember that "the iron truth that
genuine peace and security are ensured and guaranteed only by
powerful strength," the KCNA said, according to Yonhap.

North Korean state media said Sunday that leader Kim Jong
Un observed live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket
launchers and unspecified tactical guided weapons, a day
after South Korea's military detected the North launching
several unidentified short-range projectiles into the sea
off its eastern coast. (Korean
Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

"Praising the People's Army for its excellent operation of
modern large-caliber long-range multiple rocket launchers and
tactical guided weapons, he said that all the service members
are master gunners and they are capable of carrying out duty to
promptly tackle any situation," the KNCA paraphrased Kim as
saying. "He stressed the need for all the service members to
keep high alert posture and more dynamically wage the drive to
increase the combat ability so as to defend the political
sovereignty and economic self-sustenance of the country and ...
the security of the people from the threats and invasion by any
forces."

This Saturday, May 4, 2019, photo provided on Sunday, May
5, 2019, by the North Korean government shows a test of
weapon systems, in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service
via AP)

Photographs released by the KCNA showed the weapons being fired
as Kim, equipped with binoculars, observed tests of the
different weapons systems.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said that "several
projectiles" had been launched from near the coastal town of
Wonsan and that they flew up to 125 miles before splashing into
the sea toward the northeast. That roughly matched the distance
between the area and the South Korean capital of Seoul,
although the North in Sunday's report did not issue any direct
threat or toward the South or the United States.

This Saturday, May 4, 2019, photo provided on Sunday, May
5, 2019, by the North Korean government shows a test of
weapon systems, in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service
via AP)

Kim Dong-yub, an analyst from Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern
Studies, told Reuters the missile appeared to be modeled after
the modeled after Russia's 9K720 Iskander mobile short-range
ballistic missile system.

Iskander missiles can be fired a distance ranging from 37 to
300 miles and are difficult to intercept, military experts
.

“What was sobering for me was that unexpectedly, there was a
photo of short-range, ground-to-ground ballistic missile,
otherwise known as the North’s version of Iskander," .

The solid-fuel North Korean missile, which was first revealed
in a Pyongyang military parade in February, is potentially
capable of conducting nuclear strikes on all areas of South
Korea, according to Kim.

After an emergency meeting of top officials at the presidential
Blue House in Seoul, South Korea said it's "very concerned"
about the recent North Korea's weapons launches, calling them a
violation of the agreements to reduce animosities between the
countries. Officials also urged North Korea to stop committing
acts that would raise military tensions and join efforts to
resume nuclear diplomacy.

A TV screen shows a file footage of North Korea's missile
launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station
in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

The weapons launches come amid stalled diplomatic talks after
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in
Vietnam for their , but negotiations fizzled.
The North requested sanctions relief in exchange for partial
denuclearization measures. The U.S. balked at the request,
insisting sanctions would not be relaxed until complete
denuclearization.

This Saturday, May 4, 2019, photo provided on Sunday, May
5, 2019, by the North Korean government shows North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un observing tests of different weapons
systems, in North Korea. (Korean
Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Pyongyang has recently demanded that U.S. Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo be removed from nuclear negotiations and criticized
National Security Adviser John Bolton. North Korea also said
last month that it had tested a new type of unspecified
"tactical guided weapon."

President Trump said Saturday on Twitter that he still
believes a nuclear deal with North Korea will happen.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump said Saturday on that he still believes a nuclear
deal with North Korea will happen. He tweeted that Kim "fully
realizes the great economic potential of North Korea, &
will do nothing to interfere or end it."

Trump added: "He also knows that I am with him & does not
want to break his promise to me. Deal will happen!"

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